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Weird, creepy and cool: A monument for rebuilding a devastated human race in Georgia (how did I manage to not go when I was there?)
An interesting blog post and a good article on being queer and Asian, and a little something about Mediocre Assassin’s Handbook.
There’s a call for submissions at M-BRANE SF.
Irene Gallo has a [...]

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KeyCon Panels!

Hey! Going to KeyCon? Here are the panels I’m going to be on. Not only are they amazingly cool, I’m going to be with some really heavy hitters. I mean, Katherine Kurtz, Kelly Armstrong? Robert J Sawyer? Hell yeah BB!
Friday:
2100: Writing the juicy bits (that means sex and death, kids) Katherine Kurtz, Kelly Armstrong, [...]

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Shopping

Today, I popped into the ReStore to see if they had anything that was both cheap and cool. They did. I bought a door. A big door, as wide as each of the cargo doors in the basement at work, and probably Victorian. It weighs about eight thousand pounds, which is why I was so [...]

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How to Submit Short Fiction

A while ago, I did a post on submitting manuscripts to a publisher which is, really, just how to format your query letter. After having a quick conversation with Tom at the shop, I realized I had kind of forgotten all the other stuff that’s part of submitting, like, for example, how you know when [...]

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Crabby McCrabberson

Today I am Crabby McCrabberson.
My day started, a 6:00 am, with me dropping four litres of milk onto my shoes and pretty much continued in the same vein all day long. In the mid-morning I broke a french press and scattered glass everywhere, in the early afternoon I had a total communication breakdown with [...]

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Woo!

Ordered my first pallet of coffee at the shop today! Uh… it’s a big thing for me.

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Aporkalypse*

Ok, I can no longer read the newspaper, or, indeed, listen to the BBC news. The Today Program was essentially a four hour program on how close the WHO is to declaring Swine Flu a pandemic (we’re not there yet), how the airlines are going to suffer and go under, what’s going to happen to [...]

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Piracy is killing the music industry. Really, really slowly. (via boingboing)

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Scalzi on YA fiction. (via Hayden Thorne)

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Karate, coffee and the flu

I’ve been working on this essay called “Ways In Which I Am So Not A Samurai”, which is started off as a response to the huge amount of neo-samurai machismo silliness in martial arts stuff on line (in particular) and in books (sometimes). I don’t know about you, fellow followers of the Way, but I’m [...]

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